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Acc., accident; adj., adjustment; assoc., association; asst., assessment; assur.,
assurance; bd., board; bk., bank; certf., certificate; coll., collateral; com. or cm.,
common; con., consolidated; conv., convertible; coup., coupon; deb., debenture;
dep., deposit; dist., district; div., division; dvd., dividend; ed., education; elec.,
electric; ext., extension; for., foreign; fd., fund; frat., fraternal; gen., general;
gtd., guaranteed; guar., guaranty; imp., improvement; inc., income; ins., in-
surance; insp., inspection; inst., institution; int., interest; lia., liability; lim.,
limited; liq., liquidation; mar., marine; mfg., manufacturing; mtg., mortgage;
nwn., northwestern; pf., preferred; prec., precinct; pur., purchase; reg., regis-
tered; rec., receiver; refg., refunding; sav., savings; sch., school; sink. or sk.,
sinking; soc., society; stk., stock; tr., trust; twnp., township; war., warrants.

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Atlas National Bank, The, Cincinnati, Ohio....

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Blodget, Merritt & Co., Boston, Mass.
Brown Bros. & Co., Philadelphia, Pa..
A. N. Chandler & Co., Philadelphia, Pa..

Fred. T. & Percy M. Chandler, Philadelphia, Pa..
R. L. Day & Co., New York....

Dick Bros. & Co., Philadelphia & New York..
Drexel & Co., Philadelphia, Pa..

Farson, Leach & Co., New York & Chicago..
*Fearon & Co., Philadelphia, Pa....
Arthur C. Gwynne, New York..

Hambleton & Co., Baltimore, Md...

Harriman & Co., New York....

Edward C. Jones & Co., New York...

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New First National Bank, The, Columbus, Ohio.....

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North American Trust Co., The, New York...... Outside back cover

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Trowbridge, MacDonald & Niver Co., Chicago, Ill.

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CHARLES W. PLACE

DEALER IN

High-Grade Railroad Bonds

20 and 22 Broad Street

NEW YORK CITY

Publisher's Notice

Parts II and III of AMERICAN INVESTMENTS-CLASSIFIED are herewith submitted to subscribers, actual and prospective.

Owing to the urgent demand for the publication on the part of those who have already subscribed for it, or expressed a desire to obtain a copy when issued, it has been decided to publish parts II and III, which comprise practically all of that part of the work most useful to bankers and brokers, as a first installment.

It should be understood that the book comprises full lists of such securities only as are named in the various investment and other reports, the data having been taken from the latest official sources at command at the time of compilation. The matter has been reproduced, for the most part, as it appeared in these reports, with the exception of such changes as were made necessary by combining various amounts of the same holdings under one title, which will explain, in most cases, the insufficiency and want of uniformity in the description of these securities.

Great effort has been made to avoid serious errors, and it is believed that, while minor ones may be discovered in considerable number in the aggregate, they will not be found to affect in any material degree the usefulness or general integrity of the work.

The nature of the compilation and the experimental methods that were necessarily required in the first production were such as to render errors, once committed, often impossible of detection, and it should not be surprising, perhaps, if, in the preparation and arrangement of such a great mass of matter, comprising almost 7,000 distinct titles of securities and nearly 50,000 lines, representing as many separate investments, or groups of investments, quite a number should have unavoidably crept in.

While the general merits of the publication will be apparent to most persons for whom it was intended, its principal claims may be summed up briefly as follows:

It combines in one volume, for convenient reference, all the important investment reports, a directory of Savings Banks, Insurance Companies, Trust Companies, etc., and an abstract of the Investment Laws of the New England and other States.

It defines and makes more available a clientage which it would re

NOTE.-The treatise on "Municipal Credit." originally designed for this volume, will be published as a separate installment, and delivered to subscribers as early as practicable.

quire years for the average broker to acquaint himself with and classify by usual methods.

It locates securities of every character, noted in the various State reports, and saves brokers and bond dealers a vast amount of random circularizing, postage, stationery, clerical expenses, etc., while securing more immediate attention, with better results.

It designates by groups the leading financial institutions which have purchased a given class of securities, and thereby enables any banker or investor to determine at a glance the relative merit of any security listed in its pages.

It makes all classes of securities more available as banking collateral, and explodes completely the "no market" idea regarding many of our most conservative investments.

It establishes a means of communication between investors and prospective purchasers of any given class of securities, and facilitates co-operative action in case of default, litigation, proposed reorganization, etc.

It creates a foundation for broader and more rational laws relating to the investment of savings and trust funds, and inferentially shows the inconsistency of those laws which exclude one class of securities and accept another of inferior grade.

That the general scheme of the publication has the sanction of the leading bankers and brokers of the country is fully attested by the unstinted and universal commendation bestowed upon it since the first few specimen pages were presented, and the substantial patronage which it has received in both its subscription and advertising departments, for all of which the publisher begs to extend his most grateful acknowledgment.

The book can not fail to be an invaluable aid to those charged with the responsibility of the investment of funds of individuals or corporations from day to day, as its pages reflect the crystallized wisdom, discretion, and experience which for half a century has. guided the ablest financiers in determining the value of every security.

offered for the market.

It is intended to make the succeeding volume more nearly perfect in all its details, and to increase the usefulness of the publication, from year to year, in any feature which its continued use may suggest.

That the work as a whole fills a small, but important, place hitherto unoccupied in the financial reference library of the country, and especially of "Wall Street," is noted with unusual gratification, and the hope is ventured that the book will prove of sufficient merit as a desk-companion to justify its retention in high favor indefinitely. C. G. HARRAMAN.

NEW YORK, July 19, 1899.

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